Mathematics is a broad discipline with many diverse applications
in physical sciences, life sciences, and engineering as well as
social and managerial sciences. The Department of Mathematics
provides a variety of concentrations leading to Baccalaureate,
Masters, and PhD degrees.

The Department of Mathematics is proud of its excellent teaching
and active research programs. Several of our faculty members are
recipients of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Teaching. A strong tradition of mentorship attracts the most
promising individuals and supports their development.

Each year about one-third of our faculty hold external
research grants from agencies such as the U.S. Department of
Defense, the National Security Agency, and the National Science
Foundation. Faculty research enhances our intellectual and
technological environment to support exceptionally creative science
and education.

Competing in a field of 7,600 entries, UB's team became one of
ten Outstanding Winners in the 2015 Mathematical Contest in
Modeling. The worldwide competition is run by the Consortium for
Mathematics and Its Applications.

At the International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis,
held in Brno, Czech Republic, our URGE To Compute team
received the Best Student Paper Award for their presentation, "On
Intersection Graphs of Convex Polygons".

Li Wang will join us in January 2016, coming from the
mathematics department at the University of California Los Angeles.
Wang recently published An asymptotic-preserving scheme for the
semiconductor Boltzmann equation toward the energy-transport
limit.

Hanfeng Li has received the UB Exceptional Scholar Sustained
Achievement Award for outstanding research over the past several
years. His publication "Soficity, amenability, and dynamical
entropy" is forthcoming.

Sarah Muldoon will be joining us in August 2015, coming from the
bioengineering department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her
research involves novel techniques and measures to investigate and
quantify the role of network organization in brain function.